0.9 ie ont Wage Boost Ends via Carpen ) feet VOL. XLI, No, 215 ters Strike of the 8T-day-old | Thursday workers strike of tilement will receive an crease, bringing this basic wage ili be given a further raise of demonded a ate from $1.75 to $2.50 t workers more than $500,000 timated Thursday ers had 75-cent co. dH i Man b D0} 9} ACE in orld w 5 Endorse Phone w, Elect McLean biscite Favored by Heavy “MISSIONS ) SIONER—Commissioner L. H. Nicholson of the Nusieg a a Police watches members of the famed 4 ride 5 at Mou Sa COnstab] New B ar he ge SUSPENSION of Alexa Governor T guards elected Ray MeLean as alder- M. Daggett, city assessor. | also were susper 84, | Authorities haxe expressed be- lief the escapers were helped ind i P snes | Noble, deputy-governor of the i PROV IT. - Ll ire is 9 i | | cY . >» . 8. on NORTHERN AND CENTRAL BRITISH COLUMBIA’s NEWSPAPER { } | | | } | nder es ° ® Toronto Don Jail has been gjority But Voting Light announced . as investigation eae | continues into the escape of | isday endorsed the $675,000) four alleged bank robbers, headed by Edwin Alonzo Boyd W. Brand and six ided | rs of (CP Photo) thereby allow additional by someone inside the prison elephones to be installed Guards and other membe Big part of the whole con-| the jail staff are being ques- iction program is the out-| tioned ide plant which calls for put-} ting pole poles in and more 200 cable than stringing terms of the "Rains Flood bylaw the | i Under city will purchase the old Gov- T T ernment Liquor store at the orner of Third Avenue and| eXas own second Street at a cost of $32,- 900 and remodel the building. | Were receding in this hil The structure. is considered| tion in southwest Texas ‘st! “ideal” by officials who made a| after flooding rivers and ‘ survey of the telephone system | left five persons dead, two here last December because of its 1§-foot ceiling, which “allows | lowing plenty of space above for ap-j| fails paratus.” |. Downpours BOERNE measured ing and hundreds homeles the drought-dentin Texas (P)—Streams 1 sec- today creeks miss- ss fol-| g | up to Mr = | 23 inches in 24 hours sent roar- ing torrents down river and) BIG ASPHALT PRODUCER lereek beds that had been dusty) Trinidad is the world’s most| and cracked. Residents scurried ,q| notable source of asphalt "MP Seeks Subsidy to ” Save Fishing Industry By The Canadian Press tio! to roof tops and high ground. PRINCE RUPERT, B.©., FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1952 Police Seek Relatives Of Unidentified Man Body of an unidentifi j ed man, believed to be be-| tween 30 and 40 years of age, was found late Thurs-' |northwest of Prince Rupert. B.C. Pulp | It was sighted by the skipper of the Seattle fishpacker, Phoe- nix X halfway between Robson Reef and Melville Island who advised Royal Canadian Mount- ed Police. The police boat and city cor- oner went to the scene and brought the body to B.C. Un- dertakers where a post mortem examination disclosed the man, believed to have been a fisher- man, disclosed death by drown- ing. The Phoenix X was enroute from Ketchikan, Alaska, to Seattle and remained on the scene until the police boat ar- rived. The coroner said the body was | badly decomposed. It was not known how long the man had been in the water. He was wearing a heavy grey woolen sweater, blue bib-type overalls, a brown plaid shirt, two sweatshirts, one blue and one white, and grey woolen socks. Police who are seexing next of kin at first believed the body might have been that of a fisherman reported missing three weeks ago out of Port Simpson, but that man was only in his early twenties. Liquor Study To Begin in Next Few Days VANCOUVER The Van- couver Sun said Thursday in a dispatch from Victoria that the provincial government is expect- ed to announce its method of re- forming the province’s liquor system “within the next few days.” ‘Meinbers of the -gavernment |aré Known -to be concerned over ; question and VANCOUVER—The: Federal Government was asked Thursday to establish a subsidy on canned sal- il mon to help regain the, United Kingdom market for| ids! British Columbia’s salmon industry. ete nom Tom Goode, Liberal member of parliament for Burnaby-| Richmond, said he sent a wire! } to Ottawa saying that if the 2 y carryover continues, next year’s £ outlook will be very gloomy.” ‘ Mr. Goode estimated the car-| a ryover, when this season's pack ‘ i }is finished, will be about 750,-| 1/000 cases or 31,230,000 pounds, ! The MP said fast action was necessary to save the industry B. C. salmon fishermen went jon strike Sunday for higher |prices for chum salmon. Can- | ners say much of last year’s! { | ermen s demands for last | prices | | pri closer to settlement. offer thus killing all ho ending the strike,in B.C,’ | ing industry Companies said they pr seven cents a pound in stone Straits and the River; six cents a pound | Charlotte area, mittee reiterated deman of ll salmon } %0 through intricate steps. The com- 1t Middleton, N.B., June 8, 1904, joined ved in England, Italy and northwest | for the purchase of 100 (CP PHOTO) |pack remains unsold and they };cannot afford to pay the fish- year’s the unhappy situation under the present liquor law,” the story says “They are seeking a suitable way of giving expression to the vote on the plebiscite which overwhelmingly favored the sale of liquor and wine by the glass in licenced premises. “It is certain the government : ‘ ‘ ! i | day floating in the steamer channel about 20 miles) Mills Cut Production VANCOUVER (CP) — A pulp) and paper industry spokesman} {said here Thursday a decline in} | world markets has resulted in| | British Columbia mills cutting| | production of sulphate and sul-| |phite pulp by 20 per cent. They jare used for the production of |kraft paper and box products. | Newsprint is not affected, the |spokesmen said. World-wide de- jmands and prices are still} | buoyant. j | Reasons for cutbacks, the. | first since the end of the Sec- | ond World War, said one spokes- |man, are high inventories of |pulp stored up by converters jand Scandinavian mills under- | cutting Canadian and American | prices. | “In the U.S.,” explained a | Vancouver sales expert, “there }were three prices this spring: }a yery high Scandinavian, then |Canadian, then the U.S. domes- {tically controlled ceiling.” The United States is Canada’s | biggest foreign market for pulp and paper. The compete.” coal Manhunt Spreads to Many Areas TORONTO (—Bolice resigned themselves today to a long, painstaking hunt for Edwin Alonza Boyd and three members of his bankrobbing gang who es- caped from Don Jail here Mon- day As‘the search, which spread to many parts of Canada, went into jits fifth day, officials didn’t jappear to have a clue as to the sales expert said Scan- |\dimavians cut prices “:drastic- ally, and we had to follow to will order a study of the entire} whereabouts of Boyd. Steve Su- of liquor distribution|chan, William Jackson and before framing new legislation,’| Leonard Jackson. the story continued. All face trial for a pank rob- " - bery and two are accused of murder. Mrs. Boyd and her three child- ren took to the radio last night asking Boyd to surrender. In a tearful plea, Mrs. Boyd said: ' “T love you, Eddie. Please come home. I thought this was all over.” One of her children said: “We would rather have you in _~WEATHER— A ridge of high pressure cov ers B.C. today in the wake of yesterday’s weather disturbance which is now in Alberta. The air is still moist so that scattered showers are forseen mostly in the interior. Tomor row the air will become dried today, yD News Published at Canada’s Most Strategic Pacific Port—'Prince Rupert, the Key to the Great Northwest” PRICE FIVE CENTS | | | TRADE EXPERT—Brig. H. R Mackeson, Britain's 47-year- old secretary for overseas trade, will visit Canada on a three-week tour in an attempt to increase exports to this dol- lar market. He will arrive Sept. 19 and visit Vancouver, Victoria, Edmonton, Regina, Winnipeg, Toronto, Ottawa, Montreal and Quebec City. (CP from U.K. Information.) First Freight Rolls Across PGE Extension PRINCE GEORGE ()—A freight car carrying a power shovel and hint of a future made railroad history Thursday as it creaked into Prince George behind a ¥ orn av “HCO RAAES victor PR GS i: DAILY DELIVERY Phone 81 ine Reported Off Coast; Body Found In Same Area Fisherman Sights Object 25 Miles From Rupert An object believed to be a mine has been reported ' sighted about 25 miles north of Prince Rupert on the west coast of Dundas Island. Royal Canadian Navy officials are heading for the scene. Captain Levi Freestad, former fisherman in Prince Rupert and now living in Vancouver, report- ed the object. He gave its lo- cation as four miles south of Boat Harbor. The discovery recalls the tragic death of Lt. Cmdr. Ed- ward Borradaile three months ago when he was attempting to demolish a mine sighted on the beach of Bonilla Island, 70 miles south of here. — Another navy man, Petty Officer Donald Ross was in- jured in the explosion. NAVY TO INVESTIGATE It is expected the navy offi- cials will fly to Prince Rupert and then be taken to the scene by RCMP. to this coast from Japan. ing away. work engine. “It’s fortunate a brass band wasn't waiting around to greet the car—not exactly highballing and 40 years behind schedule,” said a witness. ' Eastern Railway. north from Quesnel, former nor- thern terminus of what has been called the railway with no head and no tail. Officials of the PGE say it will be the middle of next month be- fore the. extension will be in shape to permit the passage of an inaugural train. No scheduled trains will be operating before next spring. Columbia Cellulose Company, here Thursday for the first time since it was dedicated June 12, 1951. In the group, which travelled by train from Jasper to Ter- race, where they looked over |the woods operation first, were: Harold Blancke, president of Columbia Cellulose and the Cel- anese Corporation of America, the parent body in the United | States; George Schneider, sen- |ior vice-president; George H. |Richards, vice-president and so that there will be less cloud! jail, dad, and know where you | treasurer; J. Fennebreskue of in most regions. Forecast Cloudy with scattered showers light today. Sunny periods|quotes a former guard at Don are.” TORONTO ()—The Star in a copyright newspage story today |New York, vice-president of the Celanese Corporation; M. W. | Mackenmie, executive vice-pres- ident of the Canadian Chemical this afternoon. Cloudy Saturday] Jail as saying for at least five|and Cellulose Company, parent with rain in the afternoon and/years a group o f 10 guards at |Canadian body; R. L. Weldon, evening. Little change in tem-|the jail have been smuggling in| president of Bathurst Pulp and perature. Winds westerly 15 in|to prisoners quantities of food,| Paper Company; south- exposed areas today, easterly 15 tomorrow. Low tonight and high tomor- jrow at Port Hardy 46 and 64; | A meeting ‘Thursday night be- | tween operators and United) | Fishermen and Allied Workers | | Union ended with a strike of} {3,000 to 4,000 fishermen no | | pes of s fish- oposed a minimum price agreement of John- Fraser in the central northern area and 5% ‘cents a pound in the Queen) The union negotiating com-| ds for cents a pound, | nine cents a pound and eight! cents a pound in these areas. MEAT FOR BRITONS CAPETOWN (P)—Britons may) . . soon be tasting South African| of Petrolia, Ont., was ki e in 1923 and has also served with | horse and donkey steaks. An| Vv Tunswick and Nova Scotia. During the | importer arrived here to arrange horses land 50 donkeys each week | tiquor and narcotics. The story quoted the former guard as saying: | ; “They (1 guards) were running | Operators said the union flat-|Sandspit and Prince Rupert 45)the jail even though tf higher | j\ly rejected the minimum price|and 62. ups never knew it.” VANCOUVER (CP) | driver was sought today BULLETINS ‘Hit-and-Run Driver Sought — A callous automobile after the death of Phillip last year’s prices for fall chum| Harris, 66, who was struck down by a car last night and his body dragged for almost a block. Jet Pilot Killed in Crash TRENTON (CP)—Pi ampire jet crashed on airforce spokesman said lot F/O J. N. McLachlan, lied today when an RCAF the airdrome here during a training flight. The plane went out of control, an A. E. (Dal) Grauer, president of the B.C. Electric; and H. A. Dyde of Ed- monton, Until a few months ago, Mr. Mackenzie was deputy minis- ter, Department of Defence Production, at Ottawa. The group arrived at the piant tour of operations, Mr. Schneid- last night for Vancouver. Climbing Costs OSLO CP) — A governmen survey shows that Norway’ an average of eight per cent. The freight car was the first ever to roll into Prince George on the 86-mile northward ex- tension of the Pacific Great But considerable time will pass before this is a scheduled service Limited, visited the huge plant} Ship Salvage JUNEAU, Alaska (CP) Canadian Princess Kathleen, whic Antonsen. An inquiry into the Bonilla Island explosion disclosed the mine was of Japanese origin, which apparently was carried Buoys, placed at many danger spots along the rugged B.C. coast occasionally break loose and have on occasion been mis- taken for mines, but Depart- ment of Transport officials here have no report of a buoy break- Poses Problem Pacific Steamship Company official said Thursday that salvage operations of the grounded and sank near’ here Sunday, are physically possible but it is a problem whether they are economically feasible. Capt., Oliver Williams, man- ager of the company’s British Columbia Coastal Service: in’ spected the wrecked ship at Lena Point and then scheduled a conference with diver Kris) B.C. Man Clears up ‘Mystery VANCOUVER ( — The “mys- terious disappearance” of an English widow 11 years ago was cleared up today by Charles Seed, former London _ estate agent. He said Mrs. A. Simmonds, for- mer owner of a hotel at Amer- sham, Buckinghamshire, died in Oxford after outbreak of the war. In a telephone interview from Sicamous, he expressed his amazement at reports from Lon- don that Scotland Yard officials wished to question him in con- nection with the disappearance of Mrs. Simmonds. “T don’t know wnat this is all about,” he said, “and I want to put a stop to it.” The London report also said police had launched a wide- spread search for Mrs. Louise Lee, jast seen at Margate, England, four months before the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939. Seed also knew Mrs. Lee, whom he first met, he said, when she came to him to rent an apart- ment. “As far as I know, Mrs. Lee went to France. All my contact with her was during the regular course Of business.” New Whar For Pacific Port VANCOUVER © — Announce- ment that a $250,000 wharf will ‘be: built» here to. accommodate the greatly increased volume of coastal shipping was made on Thursday by Northland Termin- al Co. Ltd. h Columbia Cellulose Directorate Visits Mill — . The entire directorate of ice bringing more than 2,500 the ship was under charter, tourists and vacationers here| first to the Northwest United and later to Alaska. States Presbyterian Synod and The George, the most luxur-|then brought delegates who ious ship plying the B.C. coast,| ware attending the Kiwanis In- opened her cruise season last| ternational convention in Seat- shortly before noon and after a) er, Mr. Dyde and Mr. Richards returned to their homes y air. Other members of the .group left aboard the Prince George The Prince George, which has replaced the Prince Rupert on the regular Vancouver-Ketchi- kan run, recently completed a four-month summer cruise sea- building costs have gone up about 20 per cent since 1950. The Norway housing bank has decided to increase its loans by t 8 FATHERLY HUG is given two smiling stewardesses of Canadian Pacific Airlines by Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent at Prince Rupert airport during the PM’s recent visit here. Stewardesses are Margaret Grant (left) of Vancouver and Raymonde Ouelette, formerly of Montreal, now on the trans-Pacific flight, May 24 and on two occasions| tle. eh